Cloud Security Solutions & Advisory, VP

Job Summary:

This role is for a member of the CISO of America’s team and will provide collaboration and support within the team to ensure to that applications have the appropriate level of controls defined in response to the established inherent risk profile CIA. This role is pivotal in defining security controls before application design begins, ensuring applications are secure by control design and compliant with regulatory mandates such as FFIEC, SOX, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF, CRI, and industry best practices (OWASP).

The ideal candidate will proactively challenge architectural assumptions, interpret existing solution designs, and ensure that holistic, risk-informed controls are embedded across the application lifecycle. This role bridges the gap between information security risk governance and security architecture.

Responsibilities:

Control Specification & Design Enablement:

• Define comprehensive, cloud-aware security controls for applications prior to architectural design, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk appetite and regulatory mandates.
• Develop control requirements that span IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models across major cloud providers and hybrid environments.
• Identify risks in cloud resources and collaborate with technology teams, control partners, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure controls address data confidentiality, integrity, availability, and non-repudiation, with clear delineation of responsibilities between enterprise and application teams.
• Integrate regulatory and compliance requirements into control specifications.
• Perform risk assessments on applications across development and production environments, including code reviews
• Review third-party application architectures and identify risk
• Collaborate with development, DevOps and App Sec teams to understand application architectures and identify potential security risks
• Create threat models for applications, review output from DAST and SAST reviews, penetration testing reports
•  Participate in security governance of SDLC, design reviews and secure coding standards (OWASP)
• Utilize the MITRE ATT&CK framework to identify and mitigate threats effectively.
• Crosstrain other teams on threat modeling techniques and best practices.
• Architectural Review & Risk Challenge
• Analyze existing solution architectures to validate alignment with expected control baselines.
• Identify and challenge architectural patterns that may introduce risk or fail to meet evolving threat and compliance landscapes. Recommend compensating controls or alternative design strategies where necessary.

Governance & Regulatory Alignment:

• Ensure all controls are traceable to business risks, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
• Collaborate with compliance, legal, and audit teams to ensure control frameworks support regulatory examinations and internal audits.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Act as a bridge between cybersecurity, cloud architecture, application development, and compliance teams.
• Lead control design workshops and cloud risk assessments during early stages of the SDLC and cloud migration initiatives.

Continuous Improvement:

• Stay current on emerging cloud threats, misconfiguration risks, and evolving regulatory expectations in the financial sector.
• Participate in cloud security communities and working groups to benchmark and improve internal practices.
• Monitor emerging security threats and vulnerabilities specific to application security

Qualifications:

• At least 6 to 8+ years' experience in a combination of risk management, Cloud information security, secure coding, application security, and IT roles. Audit and Cyber Risk Institute framework prior experience a plus.
• Expert in security configuration with a focus on executing information security risk assessment/testing methodologies, Secure Software Development Lifecycle, evaluating the adequacy and efficiency of internal controls; and identifying issues resulting from internal and/or external compliance examinations especially in cloud environments.
• Experience with process documentation and designing/executing control test scripts.
• Working knowledge of application security principles, secure SDLC practices and common vulnerabilities impacting applications
• Experience with tools such as SAST, DAST and threat modeling
• Experience assessing modern application architectures, including API’s, microservices, containers and cloud-native apps
• Ability to interpret vulnerability scans, penetration test results, SAST and DAST reports and translate findings into risks the business understands
• Understanding of the regulatory environment and regulations related to technology risk, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Reserve Board (FRB) expectations.
• Professional certifications in major cloud providers for security such as AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert or Azure Security Engineer Associate and other related certificates such as Certified Information System Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• Ability to constructively work both independently and in collaborative environments involving all levels of management and employees.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities concurrently, prioritize, and efficiently complete responsibilities while maintaining the highest quality.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and conceptual skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Education & Certifications:

Bachelor's degree in Information Security or a closely related discipline, or equivalent related experience

“Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

• New York / New Jersey: $144k–$194k
• Non–New York / New Jersey: $144k–$180k

depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.